Gary C. Peters
Democrat · MI · U.S. Senate
Bio
Gary Charles Peters is an American politician, lawyer, and former naval officer serving as the senior United States senator from Michigan, a seat he has held since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Michigan's 14th congressional district, which included the eastern half of Detroit, the Grosse Pointes, Hamtramck, Southfield, and Pontiac, from 2009 to 2015.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 17.6 years
- Chambers
- House 6y, Senate 11.6y
- First took office
- 2009 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 38 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 67
- Senate class
- 2 · senior senator
- Detroit, MI · 313-226-6020
- Grand Rapids, MI · 616-233-9150
- Lansing, MI · 517-377-1508
- Marquette, MI · 906-226-4554
- Pontiac, MI · 248-608-8040
- Flint, MI · 989-754-0112
- Traverse City, MI · 231-947-7773
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $4.3M – $11.9M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $4.3M – $11.9M
- Since 2018
- +$3.7M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Gary C. Peters's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Gary C. Peters (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Peterssits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 29 members
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Peters's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
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